Table of Contents

Opera in the distraction culture, Jeremy Tambling; memoirs of an accidental film artist, Judith Weir; revision and re-vampings - Wagner, Marschner and Mozart on television and video, Jeremy Tambling; movies as opera - behind the great divide, Peter Franklin; the composing machine - Wagner and popular culture, David Huckvale; matters of life and death in Powell and Pressburger's "The Tales of Hoffman", Bruce Babbington and Peter Evans; disappearing acts - opera, cinema and homoerotic desire, Sam Abel and Craig B. Palmer; excess and yearning - the operatic in Werner Schroeter's cinema, Ulrike Sieglohr; the national dimension? Verdi and Bernardo Bertolucci, Lesley Caldwell; "Nessun Dorma" - the television "Tosca" and the sleepless politics of opera, Jonathan White; opera and post-modern cultural politics, "Turandot" in Beijing, Ping-hui Liao.